Re: [tuning] Let's make a faq (no more shouting about it, okay?)

Paul Erlich wrote:

COMMON PRACTICE HARMONY AND MEANTONE TUNING(S)

This is perhaps the one area a FAQ is sorely needed and where misconceptions
run most rampant.

Would you, perhaps, be willing to put some time and effort into writing an
accessible FAQ on this subject? Then others can add dissenting/alternate
viewpoints as need be . . . much like Monz' glossary, there's no need to
have just _one_ answer."

I'll give it a try. I can also help out with other topics as they come up.

<Psst -- I'm secretly hoping that Margo will make a lot of contributions to
<this FAQ!

May I second the wish?

A slightly expanded topic list:

GRAPHING TECHNIQUES
CONSISTANCY
HAHN'S DIAMETER
PERIODICITY BLOCKS
CPS
MOS
CONSONANCE-DISSONANCE MEASURES
ERLICH'S ENTROPY
INTONATIONAL PUNS
PARTCH PERFORMANCE AUTHENTICITY
COMMON PRACTICE HARMONY AND MEANTONE TUNING(S)
ADAPTIVE TUNING
WHAT IS PYTHAGOREAN TUNING?
WHAT IS JUST INTONATION?
WHAT IS MEANTONE TEMPERAMENT?
WHAT IS A WELL TEMPERAMENT?
WHAT IS AN EQUAL TEMPERAMENT?
WHY QUARTERTONES ARE NOT SO INTERESTING
NON-JUST, NON-EQUAL TUNINGS
THE PIERCE-BOHLEN TUNINGS
IS THE DOMINANT SEVENTH A REPRESENTATION OF 4:5:6:7 OR A DISSONANCE?
HOW DO CHOIRS/ORCHESRAS/STRING QUARTETS TUNE?
HOW ARE "BLUES" INTERVALS TUNED?
HOW IS "BARBERSHOP" MUSIC MUSIC TUNED?
WHAT RECORDINGS ARE AVAILABLE IN HISTORICAL TUNINGS?
HOW ARE GAMELAN TUNED?
NOTATION
HOW TO REFRET A GUITAR
TUNING METALLOPHONES
SYNTHESIZERS
RETUNING SOFTWARE

Also, there should be a small "who's who" of major contributors to tuning
theory: HELMHOLTZ, BOSANQUET, TANAKA, NOVARO, YASSER, FOKKER, PARTCH, HARRISON,
WILSON, MANDELBAUM, CHALMERS

Jon Szanto has already volunteered for Partch. I can do Tanaka and Harrison.
Perhaps Kraig Grady & I could do Wilson. I wish I could do Novarro, but I just
don't have the materials...

Daniel Wolf